3 December 2020 Queen Elizabeth II The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
3 December 2020 Dan Rather I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
3 December 2020 George Michael I’ve been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don’t need the public’s money.
3 December 2020 Juliana Hatfield I don’t have anything to prove anymore. I don’t have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I’m in a position of freedom. I don’t need anyone’s approval.
3 December 2020 Theodore C. Sorensen With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.
3 December 2020 Patti Smith My mom loved rock ‘n roll. My father hated it. We couldn’t play it when he was around.
3 December 2020 Lech Walesa As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
3 December 2020 Charles Kettering We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
3 December 2020 Richard Hell It’s really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially – to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.
3 December 2020 Nina Bawden People who don’t read seem to me mysterious. I don’t know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
3 December 2020 Conan O'Brien Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn’t changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he’s started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
3 December 2020 Hugo Black The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
3 December 2020 Emmeline Pankhurst The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
3 December 2020 W. Clement Stone Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
3 December 2020 Margaret Mead One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
3 December 2020 Aravind Adiga In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
3 December 2020 Ron Silver The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
3 December 2020 Neil Patrick Harris We’re in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn’t want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
3 December 2020 Ed Miliband I don’t believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
3 December 2020 David Giuntoli My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don’t get too anxious about it.
3 December 2020 Octavio Paz Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.
3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
3 December 2020 Nicole Kidman I’m a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
